Tohfa-e-Golraviyah
To
prove his claimed resemblance to Jesus Christ, Mirza put forward some
queer arguments. Here are some examples:
“
My birth had a novelty about it similar to the birth of Christ, in that a
girl had been born as my twin. This is an uncommon happening, since a
single child is born in most cases”.
Tohfa-e-Golraviyah
“Another point of resemblance between Jesus Christ and the promised
Messiah of this Ummah (i.e., Mirza himself) is that Christ was not a
full-fledged Israelite but was considered so only because of his mother.
Similarly some of my grandmothers were descendants of the Prophet (P.B.U.H)
of Islam. Furthermore, the secret about Christ having been born without a
father was that Allah was highly displeased with the children of Israel
because of the multiplicity of their sins”.
A lecture delivered in Sialkot
“
Be sure that the person who has now descended (i.e., Mirza) is in fact
(Jesus) son of Mary, who, like the original Jesus Christ, had no human as
his ‘spiritual father’. Allah Himself, therefore, became his custodian,
took him under His protection, and named him (also) Son of Mary. He is
thus symbolically Jesus Son of Mary, who was born without father? Can you
prove (also) that he is a member of any one of the four schools of fiqh
(Islamic jurisprudence)? If not, then who is this person if not the Son of
Mary?
Izalatul Awham
“The fourteenth specialty of Jesus Christ was that because of a father, he
was not part of the Bani Israel (i.e., Children of Israel). He was,
nevertheless, the last Prophet of the chain of Moses, and came fourteen
centuries after Moses. Similarly, even though I do not belong to a family
of Quraish, I have been deputed (by Allah) in the fourteenth century
(after the Holy Prophet (P.B.U.H), and am the last of all”.
Tazkirahtush Shahadatain (An
Account of Two Testimonies)
By Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian
Following the afore mentioned declarations, Mirza placed distorted
interpretations on some of the Holy Prophet’s (P.B.U.H) ahadith concerning
the future descent of Jesus Christ. Some examples are given below:
As
indicated earlier, the descent of Jesus Christ was to take place,
according to the hadith in Sahih Muslim, in the following circumstances:
a) His
descent would be next to at the eastern minaret in the city of Damascus
(Syria).
b) He
would be clad in two yellow sheets.
c) On
being requested by the Imam (leader) of the Muslims to lead the prayers,
Jesus Christ would say that this should be done by their own Imam
(your Imam is from among yourselves) other corroborating ahadith indicate
that Hazrat Mahdi would be the Imam in question.
Mirza made the aforesaid three circumstances applicable to himself on the
following rather funny premises:
a) Just
as Damascus (Syria) had been inhabited by wicked people who had martyred
Imam Hussain (R.A), so as Qadian (Punjab) inhabited by people who do not
hesitate to kill pious and pure people. It was therefore necessary that
the masil of Christ should also descend among such wicked people.
Damascus and Qadian are
geographically “situated on the same latitude", and there would be a
“minaret of Messiah” in Qadian similar to the “eastern minaret” of
Damascus mentioned in the Prophet’s hadith.
Izalatul Awham
(Mirza
also started building a minaret in Qadian but died before its completion.
Furthermore, there was in fact no similarity about “killing of pious
people” between the inhabitants of Damascus and Qadian. There are no
instances of any Qadyani having murdered any holy personality like Syedna
Imam Hussain (R.A) or ever of making an attempt on Mirza’s own life.)
Mirza also asserted that the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which is situated in
Jerusalem, and to which Allah had miraculously transported the Holy
Prophet (P.B.U.H) across hundreds of miles from Makkah on the night of the
Miraj (Ascension), in fact meant the mosque of the promised Messiah that
was situated in Qadian.
(Tazkirah-e-Majmuah-e-Wahy-e-Muqaddas,
An Account of the Collection of Sacred Revelations).
b) As
regards the two yellow sheets in which, according to the Holy Prophet’s
above-cited hadith, Christ would be clad at the time of his future descent
to earth, Mirza likened these symbolically but far-fetchedly to the two
types of physical ailment from which he then suffered, viz., frequent
headaches, vertigo, insomnia, and heart spasm in the upper part of his
body, and diabetes in its lower part.
(cf. Appendix to
Araba’in, Nos. 3 and 4).
c) With
reference to the word (Your imam is from among yourselves), which are
attributed to Jesus Christ in the aforementioned hadith in response to the
request to be made to him lead the prayers, Mirza interpreted (or rather
misinterpreted) them to mean that Christ would assume the form of his own
masil and would then lead the prayers himself - an interpretation that
clearly conflicts with those accepted by all previous scholars and
interpreters of hadith and also with other portions of the same hadith.
Concerning that part of hadith, for example, in which it was predicted
that Jesus Christ would kill the Dajjal signified those Christian priests
whom he (i.e., Mirza) had already “killed” through arguments contained in
his various books. In placing this construction on the hadith, Mirza in
fact implied that the Prophet (P.B.U.H) erred in interpreting the message
revealed to him by God on this point, since, according to him (i.e., Mirza)
it was by no means certain that an apostle could fully comprehend all the
aspects of even those future events which God Himself revealed to him!